Mr. Miles, M.P., who officiated as Vice-Chairman, waa receired with great applause, thanked them very much for the honour they hod doue him. vibram five fingers It waa true he had seen Lincolnshire in different times. Other counties could boast of laving a century bark adopted advanced cultivation—but Lincolnshire dsted ita agricultural improvement but SO or 60 years hack. He himself recollected 20 or 30 years ago seeing the first cargo of bones ever landed at Hull, and the Custom House officers not knowing what duty to charge, vibram fivefingers a deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the purpose of showing how necessary it was thst access should be afforded to these substances in such manner as would contribute to the improvement of agriculture and commerce throughout the world, and suggested that no duty should be imposed; and in point of fact no duty was imposed (cheers). What he had formerly known aa rabbit-warrens he now saw waving with crops of corn, adorning the land (cheers). What bad that been owing to? vibram five fingers shoes To nothing but the conduct both of tenants and landlords throughout Lincolnshire. The tenants knew the men they had to deal with as landlords, aud the landlords knew their tenants (cheers). They had been told that the Scotch tcciety had been a parent to them; but he would succumb to no county in England (cheers), and would say to the Tisitors of that show that, aa friends, they were happy to meet them, asking them to look at our cultivation and say whether it was not better than their own (cheers). vibram five fingers sale He differed in ao far from his hon. frieud who had preceded him, and begged to state that, as his owu conviction, as well as that of their president, who unfortunately was not amongst them, that Lincolnshire bore away the palm not ouly over every county in England, but of Scotland also, if he might so state it (loud cheers and lsughter). He returned his thanks to the council of the Society for the honour they had done him by appointing him next year to fake the station of president in the county described by the noble Earl (Carlisle), where agriculture was not so successful, where the bracken still lingered on the hills, but where they should have beautiful scenery, much to admire, and, he felt convinced, a hearty welcome. Then let him entreat them, as president elect, to visit them at their meeting next year, aud to associate with their brother fanners of that district, and in that spirit which prevails when farmer and farmer meet. He congratulated them as having been for many years a working member of the Society on the exhibition of the day; he had never seen a finer exhibition of working implements. He had not yet seen the other yard, but what he had heard read by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs five fingers shoes from the tabic regarding the competitors and the classes of animals exhibited, assured him sufficiently that the cattle-show was not less worthy of commendation than the implements. The science of agriculture had been progressing favourably year by year betwixt 1850 and 1853. The best steam-engine that could be produced for agricultural purposes in 1850 was considered to consume 7.50 odd decimals of coke per hour, vibram five fingers kso but this had been reduced year after year until it was now only 4.35. He also directed particular attentiou to the instrument which hod on this occasion been so well applied in measuring the forces exerted by the engines, and he was very proud to say that, by the ability and great energy of his friend, Mr. Amos, they had at last effected what had been long desired, in obtaining a dynamometer, and in at last being enabled to measure the effective force of implements; whilst in a few years he had no doubt they should find themselves posses: ed of a dynamometer which would equally well measure traction. If so, they would have only a simple arithmetical sum to do, and implements would be adjudged, not by the opinions of members, but by meant of a mechanical invention, which
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